OH yeah, how about my army?

Black Thorn Rocks!! give her the Mask of Venthia, and put a shield golem in your army...now she has 20 Defense!! and in close combat it could be as high as 24!!!!! with CounterAttack!!! nobody will hit her (except that auto hit Relic) - she could fight a Hill Giant 1 on 1 like that and possibly kick its butt!!!! amazing!! and she's cheap!!!!

Aeradon...in Conquest, ungodly, or should I say Godly, bringing back Gatelord, Dragon Slayer or Drak Majoris, Wraith over and over, scary!!! Put a leadership fig next to him so he can just keep doing his thing without pushing...

Well the deathspeakers are the rulers of the sect/dark crusade, so of course they should be powerful.

(Note: I'm talking about the "standard" 300 point game. He is actually better in, say, games of 500 or more points.)

Woohoo. Then you have only 87 points for other stuff, including a decent Mage Spawn. You can only use one of his three abilities a turn (and that doesn't warrant pushing).

I'd rather have one figure that summons, one with Hex, and a third with Necromancy any day of the week. And you can't revenant a figure more than once. And Necromancy fails 50% of the time. Terrify fails over 66 percent of the time and there are decent melee Heroes (i.e. Sham-rin or Darq).

i like aeredon...i'm gonna throw together a 2000 point conquest battle and put in every expensive MS i can think of...Lich, Gatelord, Draonslayer, majoris, revenant priest if he needs healing, Drakona priestess if he needs healing, draconum mummy, Desert bladestalker, tons of skeletons, werebears, werewolves and scale magi...go deathspeaker!

I like them all.

Black Thorn is BPR and is the tite. Granted, her attack is a little low, but give her a defense upping item or anti range item, as people have suggested, and she becomes ungodly. Plus, she is not disguistinly expensive.

Aeredon is the new badass for the Necros. He is a Necromancer built to survive. All his abilities support each other and always give him something to do. I may never use him, but i sooooo want him.

The artillerist would make a good ranged group. One of each in a triangle formation, with the tough one in back. The only real problem I see is their low speed.

EXACTLY, folks! Aeradon's main skill can only be seen in LARGE games- like 2,000-pointers. He doesn't have to be pushed to summon, and can pretty much repel any attack and heal himself. His main happy point is keeping people from permanently killing your super Mage Spawn.

In a 300-point game, though, he's monkey food.

This is not correct, and I'm glad you brought it up. Several warriors in 2.0 will have sub-factions that won't really help them. When something like that happens, the cost for that sub-faction ability is reduced or removed completely. So for someone like Black Thorn it costs less, because she can still spin when she wants.

Excellent Dradd.... glad to know WK took that into consideration when fixing the warriors. Any hope they're also looking at more potent combos as being more costly than the additives of their mere SAs?

Heh, Aeradon has so many cool stuff to do. Shoot for 4, summon, necromance, revenant, and hex! How can you ever decide what one to use?!

I like Black Thorn. Parry, counterattack and a high defense are an awesome combo. I like the sculpt too, she looks confident! The Khamsin Artillerists are good nons for the BPR player. The weak one is a good replacement for Boomer with 3 damage down the line and stormfire.

Aeradon+a Minion=big trouble

My only suggestion for Black Thorn is that they could have given her a 6 or 8 inch Range and shown a pistol strapped to her belt. That way her could even take advantage of the rest of the Black thorns ability.

Wasn't Nadia supposed to be a crack shot with a fuser pistol? If so, why doesn't she have any range?

Aeradon is the leader of the deathspeakers and doesn't even have one click of command or leadership at least? storywise this makes no sense to me, he should have at least had one click to start